Xenon.: mostly works faster and better
than Op. Can be prescribed preventiv (patients scared
for the operation and the after effects).

Is the strongest of the noble gasses in anesthetic
effects. Inhaled produces complete anesthesia, coma.
It would be ideal in the operation room to induce anesthesia
(to expensive).
According to the Law of similars it is clear that
Xenon must be a great remedy for coma and similar like states, such as after
effects of anesthesia or the coma after accidents. Stront-c. = „surgeon'sCarb-v.“

COURAGEOUS: Opium inspires courage and resolution in one who is afraid
of a surgical operation. Criminals (in India) lose their fear of death and go
courageously to execution. It imparts courage & increased strength but in
larger doses causes rage & fury.

Senn. = Cassia augustifolia
Nasal septum deviated Physical examination of a prover
conducted after the conclusion of proving revealed a deviated nasal septum
which was not there earlier.

On the other hand another prover who had a
deviated nasal septum before the commencement of the proving manifested its
correction at the end of the proving ?).

Avoiding Surgery

In the nasal tract, polyps will yield to Calc. Sang. Phos.
Teucrium.

Gall bladder surgery can be indefinitely postponed very often with Calc.
Bry. Chel. Podo. Mag-m. Coloc.

Ovarian cysts yield to Coloc. Lyc. Lach. Podo.
Thuj.

Lyc. and Sepia prevent hernia better than trusses.

Many prolapsed operations can be averted by Sep. Murx.
Lil-t.

Even in strangulated hernia, Nux-v. will
sometimes relax and reduce the hernia while the operating room is being
prepared.

Pain:

Here the vital point before the physician is to decide whether he should
give morphine to the patient to relieve his pains. It should, however, be noted
that morphine disturbs the stomach, stops peristalsis, has a tendency to stop
the urine. If the pains are once relieved by morphine, the life of the patient
becomes miserable, for he would refuse to sleep afterwards. Give morphine only

when it is evident that the suffering will do the patient more harm than
will the drug. An exception has, however, to be made in cases of patients who
were in the habit of taking opium even before. The prominent homoeopathic
remedies that could be used as a substitute and quietening the irritability
nerve:

Observations following post-surgery cases on blood plasma levels of
ascorbic acid. Deduction is evident of the need for substantial amounts of
ascorbic acid prior to surgery.

In 1960 and again in 1966, in papers delivered before the Tri-State
Medical Society, I called attention to the "scurvy" levels of
ascorbic acid found in postoperative patients. Plasma levels recorded before

starting anaesthesia and after cessation of such inhalants and
completion of surgery remained unchanged. This has lead many to believe that
surgery created little or no demand for supplemental "C".

We found, however, that samples of blood taken six hours after surgery
showed drops of approximately 1/4 the starting amount and at 12 hours the
levels were down to one-half. Samples taken

24 hours later, without added ascorbic acid to fluids, showed levels ¾
lower than the original samples. BaylorUniversity re-search team
reported similar findings in 1965.

Bartlett, Jones and others reported that in spite of low levels of
plasma ascorbic acid at time of surgery, normal wound healing may be produced
by adequate vitamin C therapy during the post-operative period.

Lanman and Ingalls showed that the tensile
strength of healing wounds is lowered in the presence of "scurvy plasma
levels". Schumacher reported that the pre-operative use of as little as
500 mg of vitamin C given orally "was remarkably successful in preventing
shock and weakness" following dental extractions. Many other investigators
have shown in both laboratory and clinical studies, that optimal primary wound
healing is dependent to a large extent upon the vitamin C content of the
tissues. In 1949, it was my privilege to assist at an abdominal exploratory laparotomy. A mass of small viscera was found "glued
together".

The area was so friable that every attempt at separation produced a torn
intestine. After repairing some 20 tears the surgeon closed the cavity as a
hopeless situation. Two grams ascorbic acid was given by syringe every two
hours for 48 hours and then 4x daily. In 36 hours the patient was walking the
halls and in 7 days was discharged with normal elimination and no pain. She has
outlived her surgeon by many years.

We recommend that all patients take 10 grams ascorbic acid each day.
Where this is not done and the surgery is elective, then 10 grams by mouth
should be given for several weeks prior to surgery. At least 30 grams should be
given, daily, in solutions, post-operatively, until oral medication is allowed
and tolerated.

[Dana Ullman]

Homeopathic Medicines Before and
After Surgery

Homeopathic medicines can reduce complications of surgery and augment
healing so that people can recover more quickly afterward.

Surgeons commonly ask patients not to take any food, drink, or drugs
prior to surgery. It makes sense to avoid food, drink, and conventional drugs,
there have never been any reported problems from taking homeopathic

Take either Gels. or Acon. the night before
the surgery and another dose upon waking in the morning. If fear and/or anxiety
is felt after surgery, take 1 - 3 more doses.

One double-blind, randomized trial on 50 children who underwent surgery
showed that 95% of those given the homeopathic medicine Acon.
experienced significantly less post-operative pain and agitation. Acon. was chosen because it is a common remedy for ailments
in which sudden and violent onset of shock or trauma is a primary indication,
as well as symptoms of fear and anxiety, common emotions. Experienced by
children prior to surgery.

Arn.: commonly given before and after
surgery because of its ability to reduce surgical shock and minimize bleeding.
Surgical shock is a condition that trauma or surgery can cause in which all the
capillaries and small blood vessels are filled with blood at the same time. A
randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover study showed that Arn.
significantly decreased bleeding time.

Late Donald Foubister recommended Arn. C 30 the night before surgery, another dose the
morning of the surgery, another dose just prior to the surgery, and different
medicines afterward, depending upon the type of surgery and the symptoms the
patient feels.

Long-term intravenous (IV) therapy. Frequent insertion of an IV
commonly causes phlebitis (inflammation of the vein) and hematoma (the pooling
of blood under the skin); a double-blind study using Arn.
C 5 found that it can effectively reduce and prevent such problems. The study
showed significant benefits from Arn., including
reduced pain. Besides subjective improvement, there were also objectively
measured increases in blood flow and in blood coagulation factors.

Before surgery:

Arn.: primary remedy to be taken just prior to the
majority of surgeries, there are a certain number of operations for which Dr. Foubister commonly recommended other remedies.

Raph.: post operative indicated cases in which
there are signs suggesting intestinal obstruction, where there is a good deal
of irregularly distributed abdominal distension, pockets of wind which

the patient cannot move –up or down. They very often complain of icy
cold knees. The mental attitude is best described as a feeling that they are
finished and their number is up and almost an acceptance of this. In post
operative cases of this kind, Raphanus often more
useful than Carb-v. or Ars..
In bad cases, it is certainly more useful than Lycopodium.

Ruta. C 30 for surgery involving
cartilage and periosteum, as is often occurs in the
knee or elbow. Evening before, the morning of the operation, and immediately
afterward.

Staph. C 20 o. Aesc-h. C 30 for hemorrhoidal
surgery, in a similar pattern as described for Ruta.

Staph. C 30 and Arn. C 30 before circumcision
should be given similarly as above.

After surgery. Please note that the length of time of
treatment can and should be different with each patient, depending upon the
intensity of symptoms. Doses should generally be taken as long as pain
persists, though they should not be taken for more than a couple of days,
unless the person is still in pain and the remedy is providing obvious relief.

Arn. C 6 - C 30 should be given for at least 2
doses after surgery, approximately one hour apart.

In addition to this remedy, the following remedies should be given one
hour after the last dose of Arn.:

Dose: Apply external remedies at least once a day, better more often and
apply again after bathing. Take internal remedies every 2 - 4 hours during the
first 24 hours and 4 x daily for 2 to 5 more days.

Dose: Take a remedy every 2 hours during intense pain and every 4 hours
during mild discomfort. If improvement is not obvious after 24 hours, consider
another remedy.

Materiamedica:

Acon.: Found highly effective in the treatment of
post-surgical agitation in children. Commonly used for both pre- and post-surgical anxiety and of the fear of
dying.

All-c.: Neuralgia of the stump following amputation.

Arg-n.: Anxiety and panic in anticipation of the
surgical procedure before the event.

Arn.: Tissue damage from all causes (+ bruised
pain)/recovery from tissue damage of surgical origin/reduces post-surgical
bruising and swelling and is very effective at reducing post-surgical pain.

Has a significant role to play in reducing the risk of post surgical haemorrhage as well as surgical shock, a condition that
results in capillaries and arterioles all filling with blood at the same time,
leading to insufficient arterial pressure. Useful with people on long-term
intravenous therapy where they run the risk of developing phlebitis and haematomas.

Bell-p.: Surgery on abdominal, thoracic or pelvic areas and this has
resulted in pain that’s felt deep in these areas. DD.: Led., Bellis < cold.

Chin.: Loss of fluid loss during or after surgery lead to fatigue and
other health problems.

Ferr-p.: Use for a few days prior to surgery to
reduce the risk of surgical infection or haemorrhage.

Gun.: Can provide relief from post-surgical infections and sepsis.

Ham.: Indicated for engorgement or congestion of the veins following
surgery as well as slow haemorrhaging of dark blood
from the site of the surgery.

Hyper.: Recovery from post-surgical damage to nerves and also where
there is excessive post-surgical pain, particularly where arnica appears to be
ineffective and where the pain is shooting in character.

Use for pain felt in a limb stump after amputation and phantom limb pain
that may occur after amputation.

Ip.: For nausea or vomiting following surgery as
well as haemorrhages of bright red blood.

Naja.: For hypotension that may result from shock
and some medications used for surgery.

Nux-v.: General for the effects of anaesthesia following surgery.

Phos.: Haemorrhage during or after surgery. Effects of anaesthesia.

Raph.: Constipation that follows (abdominal)
surgical procedures as well flatus that is difficult to expel (= incarceration
of flatus).

Ruta.: Surgery has affected the periosteum,
cartilage or tendons leading to damage in these areas, pain or delayed recovery.

Staph.: Pain at the site of the incisional
wounds that occur in surgical procedures.

Symph.: For injuries to bones that may occur during
surgery.

Thios.: For post-surgical scarring.

[Howard Crutcher/Presented by Sylvain Cazalet]

Accurately speaking, surgical remedies include nearly the entire list of
homoepatic medicines. There are some, however, more
prominent in the surgical field than others, and are shall outlined briefly.

Shock:

+ Coldness: Camph.

+ blueness: Carb-v. blueness calls for Carbo-veg.,

+ cold sweat on forehead/body: Verat.

Effects of hæmorrhage.

Distressing restlessness and tossing about/sends doctor away: Acon.

THIRST immediately following loss of blood is frequently controlled: Ars.

Acute symptoms subsided: Chin.

Severe operations upon the abdomen:

Staph deserves especial mention for its power to control subsequent
pain.

Painful surgical conditions:

Intolerable, tearing pains in a wound/stump: Coff.

Moderate pain with great restlessness: Acon.

Sharp, darting pains along the line of the incision: Led.

In chronic abscess, in bone diseases involving the ligaments and the
glands:

Sil. cold, objectively and subjectively/movements
sluggish; wounds are slow in coming, slow in healing; the pus is offensive.

Hep. more quickly attacked, is inclined to heal
more rapidly, wound more active/discharges less offensive.

Calc. sweaty, blue-eyed, fat or lean, but always flabby; wounds leave
large scars; neck is enlarged somewhere; joints loose. A long scar in the
carotid triangles, with a pair of crooked legs always calls for Calc.

The pus is thin and runs easily as a rule.

Phos. a sensitive wound; it bleeds freely; it
appears angry and fiery red, or perhaps pale, but always ready to bleed in a
stream; patient tall, spare, red-headed and freckle-faced. Constipated and at
times some indefinite trouble with his bladder.